Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3565 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Monday 2007-04-23 at 09:19 +0200, Petr Klíma wrote:

> 
> Well, the halt problem seems to be solved. It was caused by mounting NFS
> filesystem within a tree of another NFS fs. Like mounting NFS on /home
> and then another NFS mount to /home/another/nfs. Obviously the umount of
> /home happens before umount of /home/another/nfs and fails. Once I have
> moved /home/another/nfs mountpoint out of /home, halt seems to work
> (several attempts, no failure).

I think the umount procedure/script/whatever should be clever enough to 
sort it out, ie, umount in the appropiate order. If that doesn't happen, I 
think it is a bug. Or, it depends on the order the mounts are listed in 
fstab.


> I still wonder why the shutdown initiated by Power button or
> Ctrl+Alt+Del worked while GDM button didn't. There are no open files on
> /home/another/nfs (almost never).

Perhaps because it force-kills everything.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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